Ellen Miffitt Art Collections

Illustration for Children

These are watercolor and other media specifically drawn for picture book illutrations. Children’s illustration are fun to create… whimsical characters often develop from things my children imagined when they were playing. When I work in watercolor, I like wet-into-wet passages with various techniques such as placing waxed paper or saran wrap over a wash to create pattern and texture. Other times I may have a light pencil or permanent ink drawing and essentially "fill in" areas with flat washes of color.